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BU recruit 2014- Josh Cunningham

Indiana is now one of the main players and is recruiting Cunningham hard -
a premium feature on the Indiana Rivals site has a story about this...
it says that Indiana's only real competition is Iowa State (they don't think either Bradley or anyone else is a serious threat to land Cunningham).

They also say Josh Cunningham is waiting to see if either Iowa State or IU continues to pursue or sign any other player who might present a challenge for Josh's playing time - and they specifically mention Marvin Clark...

Actually, Bradley has also been linked with Marvin Clark - but Clark is now blowing up and getting big time interest & offers
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=22968

but ...both Indiana & Iowa State are also pursuing Marvin Clark and have offered.....
- and Marvin Clark is actually headed to Bloomington, IN right now for a visit to Indiana this weekend and will be at their game against Ohio State.

Rumor is that if Clark chooses IU - then Cunningham won't and will not even make a visit there as he had planned.
Cunningham actually was supposed to visit Indiana a couple weeks ago but a harsh stretch of weather caused a cancellation and he's not yet rescheduled.

Seems there's two polar opposite approaches to recruiting -
one approach is like this where the recruit waits out 'til he gets the best offer - not really that concerned where it's coming from - just that it's the best by various criteria..
-the other approach would be to take the offer from your favorite school - stay loyal or instate or whatever but at least then you'll be playing for the school you want to be playing for.
 
And really the best approach would be to go to the school with the best chance for you to thrive and develop. Such as a school that you could get the most PT and potentially be a star.
 
egib52 said:
And really the best approach would be to go to the school with the best chance for you to thrive and develop. Such as a school that you could get the most PT and potentially be a star.
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I would say this is not the most common logic used by higher level recruits. More often they go to the highest level school that offers, either because their AAU or high school coach want a bragging point or because the recruit himself wants the accolades.
 
Unfortunately, Myke Henry has just sat out an entire year after his transfer. He's pretty locked into staying at Depaul even if they change coaches.
 
Josh is pushing his announcement date back to the 18th of April and will go ahead and take his last official visit to South Carolina.
 
At one time Bradley's name was linked with those recruiting Orr's Marlon Jones. He is a 6'9" big bodied kid with skills. I am not sure why Bradley is no longer listed, and a lot of other big name schools who were once recruiting him seem to have dropped off. Now the only names appear to be St. Johns, Tulane, and Loyola. I would like to see another big kid recruited, especially one who can score like Jones. He had games of 30 points or more despite playing on a team with multiple other Division I players (Tyquon Greer & Lou Adams)
http://zsmart.blogspot.com/2014/01/orr-academys-marlon-pookie-jones.html
 
now Steve Lavin/St. John's are on to Josh Cunningham full tilt - and have offered & no doubt offered everything they can think of..
 
But from some things I heard last week, it sounds like Bradley is still Josh's and his mom's favorite. :)
 
Great news. Putting Cunningham, Yarbrough, and Sutherland together would be a great recruiting year for Bradley. It is not even counting Thomas and another one or two recruits. However, we are not there yet.
 
interesting discussion on the Indiana premium board that Cunningham wants first & foremost some assurance that he'll play right away and that he will play a wing spot and not be asked "to play inside"...

Indiana is in desperate need of big guys and there's a sense that Cunningham might not want to go to IU since their biggest need is a big guy ...and the Hoosier fans are also bummed that they're batting "Freaking Bradley?" to land Cunningham
BUT - we're in the exact same situation - surely he sees that he'd be one of our biggest players and that the biggest part of our returnees all play the wing as well.
Sadly a few posters there also figure that the only way BU can still be in the picture is that "Bradley cheats" - LOL
https://indiana.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=731&tid=200192385&mid=200192385&sid=942&style=2
 
http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/ncb...d/9739/roundtable-espn-100-commit-predictions

Espn's recruiting experts run down their predictions for the remaining uncommitted players on their top 100 board. 1 of the 5 predicts bradley for josh Cunningham with 2 of the others picking South Carolina and the other two predicting Indiana.

Two of the five identified bradley as one of his top two choices. The others didn't mention bradley as anything more than an also ran.
 
The guy writing for Rivals at South Carolina also just talked with Josh Cunningham and posts a new report on their premium site...
They believe they are in good position and likely Josh's first choice.
He also added a few other comments...
Josh will push his decision back further for reasons noted below...
and that he did have good time on his visit with his mother accompanying him - even taking in the spring FB game

On his visit to South Carolina Josh "..liked everything he saw.???
He still names six "finalists" - South Carolina, Indiana, Creighton, Bradley, Minnesota and DePaul. He does not mention St. John's who was all over him recently.

He's also pushing his announcement back until at least next week due to school being on spring break..
"..Pushing his announcement back due to school being on spring break.
Indiana losing steam, Bradley is the dark horse .."

"His coach said Monday night Cunningham will not make an announcement
Friday afternoon at Morgan Park High School as planned because the school is
closed this week and the gym won??™t be available.
.... the announcement will now be made next week, possibly on Monday, but that??™s not definite at this point.
This delay means Cunningham probably will get the chance to make an unofficial visit to DePaul before making his decision.
The dead period this week would have prevented him from getting to DePaul before a Friday announcement."

One other published report in the USC press talks to Nick Irvin who says...
"...Irvan does not sense a favorite right now. ???It??™s hard to tell,??? he said.
???One days he likes South Carolina a lot, one day he likes Indiana a lot, one
day he likes Bradley a lot,??? Irvan said"
 
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